TeX, Lies, and Yellow Dog Linux (was: YDL in Mac OS X Hints today)

[Patrick Dowling]

MacDevCenter has posted a part 2 to LaTeX (see 
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/03/05/latex.html).  Which 
covers the basic of LaTeX.

On Feb 29, 2004, at 3:13 PM, Stephen Harker wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 08:17:35AM -0800, Clinton MacDonald wrote:
>>
>>> If you want to use it really quickly the
>>> "LaTeX: A Document Preparation System" (by
>>> Leslie Lamport, Addison Wesley, 1994) is a
>>> must (learning by examples tends to be
>>> slower).
>>
>> Thanks -- I will look for it.
>
> There are a number of useful introductory articles that are freely
> downloadable from CTAN sites or mirrors (see
> http://www.tug.org/tex-archive/CTAN.sites).
>
>    http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/lshort.pdf
>    http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/epslatex.pdf
>    http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes
>
> Personally I write LaTeX using emacs with the auctex
> (http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/) package, this can be combined
> with the preview-latex (http://preview-latex.sourceforge.net/) package
> to give an even more graphical front end.  I have not tried Lyx, but I
> started with LaTeX long enough ago that I don't feel a great need for
> a graphical front end.  It did not take long for me to be convinced it
> was the best way to go and when I see people struggling with Word and
> its inadequate output I am even more convinced.
>
> -- 
> Stephen Harker                           
> Stephen.Harker@spme.monash.edu.au
> School of Physics & Materials Engineering
> Monash University                       
> http://www.ph.adfa.edu.au/s-harker/
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